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Liska Jacobs

Liska Jacobs
Liska Jacobs is the author, most recently, of The Pink Hotel. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Literary Hub, Alta, the Millions, ZYZZYVA, among other publications.


Sofia Samatar on Collage, Literary Community, and the Stunning Loneliness of Publishing

Liska Jacobs in Conversation with the Author of “Opacities”
August 19, 2024  By Liska Jacobs
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Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Finding Kinship with Eve Babitz and Joan Didion
July 19, 2022  By Liska Jacobs
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Remembering Kate Braverman’s Los Angeles

Liska Jacobs on the Laureate of Southern California
October 22, 2019  By Liska Jacobs
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Grief and Recovery in Thousand Oaks

Liska Jacobs on Her Hometown's Navigation of Dual Tragedies
November 21, 2018  By Liska Jacobs
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10 Essential Books That Capture Los Angeles in All Its Sublime, Beautiful Darkness

Liska Jacobs Reads Her Way to the Heart of an Iconic American City
November 8, 2017  By Liska Jacobs
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In Praise of the Mighty Zine

Live, from the LA Zine Fest
March 10, 2016  By Liska Jacobs
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